But does the Daily Mail, I wonder, realise it is actually supporting the leader of not just a far-right party – but an actual fascist party? The real 1930’s, Hitler and Mussolini, goose-stepping, concentration camp thing.

Ms Le Pen is the leader of the French far-right party Le Front National, whose co-founder, along with Ms Le Pen’s father Jean-Marie Le Pen, was a man called Roland Gaucher – who actually served time in prison for collaborationism during the Nazi occupation of France.

Of course it’s possible the Daily Mail just made a mistake – maybe they didn’t research the origins of Ms Le Pen’s party well enough – maybe they didn’t know about her father’s opinion on the Holocaust or maybe they just thought the sins of the father should not be visited on the daughter.

Maybe.

Except for the fact this isn’t the first time the Daily Mail has come out in support of a fascist party.